Honestly:why did you join a GLO,why is it special and are you still glad you did?
 

Fairly sure this is obvious but hey, why not get a bit philosophical and share the magic that is why we all joined sororities and fraternities?? This is the time of year new members make that important decision and hopefully, match the invites of the house{s} they are interested in....let's tell them why!

For me, it was the friendship, the loyalty to the creed of Alpha Xi Delta and the true feeling that each member was special and crucial to the further growth of that sisterhood...not just a Greek letter house..a real home of close friends... a loyalty that never fades whenever we see another sister...at another school...at another chapter or in public.

Why did you join?

Why did you join? (a different one)

NPHC BGLOers: Why Did you Join?

Why did you become greek/choose the org you did?

Why did you choose your TYPE of GLO?

Why did you choose your sorority/fraternity?

Just for starters.

Parties.

To get laid.

To have a nice place to live.

Frat boys.

Did I cover them all?

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Careful, your class is showing.

OMG a SockPuppet totally just called you out! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

SockPuppet's sarcasm meter is broken.

I was interested in a place where I could frat.

I joined so that I could become part of a "secret society so powerful, it could give me everything that I desire.....at a price".

C'mon, didn't you guys see "The Skulls"? (....huffs and walks away)

Hey if you will notice most of the other posts were two years ago...until today's threads ....so I had every reason to ask and make a new one....

You are fine for asking. Ignore the heinous bitches on this site who get their panties in a wad because someone made a thread that has already been done before. If they get pissed.....that would be a strong indication that they have been on GC for entirely too long and have little to no social life or life in general.

I joined my fraternity to make connections, make some damn good friendships, carry on my family's legacy, be in a top chapter, party balls, meet hot sorostitutes, entertain pledges, rush trips etc. etc. etc.

I joined my society because I was bored and wanted to do something for a month. This week is the start of my 5th year of being Greek. I'm no longer bored. :)

Pretty much. (Did it ever work in the first place?)


And macallan25, it's not that I'm opposed to starting new threads when old ones are stale...but it's just that kind of touchy-feely BS question that everyone gives the same PC I'm-talking-to-a-rushee type answer to.

I don't think MysticCat was necessarily trying to make a point.

Maybe he was just pointing the existence of the earlier threads for information purposes. They could still be relevant.

Most people who are making the point you are referring to tend to come right out and say it, no holds barred.

"Reading too much between the lines" is often the culprit in things get blown up much more than they have to be.

Ok I am learning the ways of this chat...the only reason I truly thought a new spin on this question is mainly for the fact that spring 07 brings new opportunities for membership for those interested...

For me, between just having completed reading PLEDGED and the hoopla about the possible Tyra Banks' episode on supposedly fulfilling her "dream of rushing a sorority house"--it occured to me to ask is this still special, relevant and why??

No political relevance, no deep hidden meanings, no between the lines...
just why the hell do it, did you like it, why did you select whichever house gave you a bid, and truely, why would you tell a newbie to participate in this 21st century spin of an old fashioned form of perpetual friendship and brotherhood/sisterhood???

{Answer the thread, ignore it but no more wasted time tossing it around..please not needed surely all of you have more important things to ponder.}

Because when I asked the Magic 8-Ball if I should join, it said "All Signs Point to Yes". Actually maybe it was just a normal 8-ball. But boy, was it magic.

Thanks blkwebman1919. You're right. There's no problem in asking. Sometimes, however, if the same question has already been asked and there are threads on it, there may be more value in resurrecting one of the old threads rather than starting a new one. (Witness the 7 new posts in NPHC BGLOers: Why Did you Join? since yesterday afternoon.) What some people said two years ago may be two years old, but given the question, the answer isn't likely to have changed.

With your question(s) stated that way, they become much more timely and interesting...

I'm betting that if this had been part of your original post, things might have unfolded differently for you. ;)

Holy shit, no way. ME TOO!

My Ouija board told me to do it. It also told me that my dorm room was haunted.

I did it so I could have lots of dances to attend and at the same time never have to buy a dress because I'd just borrow one!

I wanted to meet new people.

You forgot the beer.......... ;)

I rushed because my boyfriend had just joined a fraternity and a lot of the brothers seemed to be dating girls in sororities. I stayed because I finally found some normal girls at our farmy school.

My cousin actually rushed a fraternity at his school for that reason. He dropped out when he realized that if he joined he'd actually have to pay for the beer.

Duh, what do you think the Frat Boys are for??;)

well, I wanted to, I thought it would be fun. Radford is kind of...I don't know, strange, if you've never been. And even if you have, but still, I digress.

I joined my fraternity because when I had pneumonia spring semester of Freshman year, out of all the "friends" I made, only like 4 or 5 came to visit, 4 who went to Radford, 2 girls 2 guys, they didn't come at the same time, but one of the guys was OX and went and talked to my prof. because he wasn't getting back to my emails and didn't know I was sick and he went and dropped off my papper and gave me my assignments, etc. Then the other guy and I became pledge brothers to the colony/ Founding Fathers of the IZ chapter.

I wanted real friend, not just people who only cared about me when I was getting f-ed up. Getting f-ed up is a big part of Radford, but not the only part. Some one has to care if you're hungover.

Honestly? I was curious. I ended up staying because I really liked the other girls and the social-ness.

H, ignore all of the snide and sarcastic posts and dig through the real ones.

Being a GDI, you are one person among many. Being a part of a Greek Organization, you become a member that is a branch of yourself.

As to true the story R U OX ALUM mentioned, your Brothers/Sisters are just that. You worry about them and they worry about you. I wanted to be a member of the whole, not just a member of the few that after graduation I would never see again.

I keep in contact with many of my Brothers as there were many bondings from the good old days.

Is parting part of it? Yes.

But the bonding of local chapter Brothers/Sisters is a huge part of it. The interaction among other like Brothers/Sisters can lead to many things in the after college life. It can also mean a bonding with fellow Greeks who know what you were part of in college by learning how to run and office, cope with many problems, be of social graces, having fun and learning about life while leaning how to study and graduate.

Remember all of the snide remarks, well, ask yourselves why you have Greek Letters in your signatures talk about your Brothers/Sisters and are even on GC?

Just thought I'd let you know, that you sound crazy like some of the AXD sisters in my chapter. It just made me laugh a little. :D

Anyway, I chose to go through recruitment mostly because I'd been hearing about Greek Life almost non-stop since my older cousin started college and pledged a fraternity there (and, at the time of my recruitment, that had been a little over four years ago). Then my other cousin pledged a fraternity, then my first cousin got a girlfriend who was in a sorority. So, basically, for four years I'd heard nothing at holidays other than stories about Greek life. Which I loved, don't get me wrong. My mom's side of the family...every person there has gone Greek (with the exception of my younger sister, but she's a freshman in high school, so she's got a few years)--both my grandparents, my aunt, my uncle, both my cousins, my cousin's fiance, my mom, and my dad. So I figured I'd check it out.

I was leaning toward AXD way in the beginning (but kept an open mind during recruitment, of course), mostly because I'm a double legacy. My grandmother is an Alpha Xi and so is my mom. During recruitment, I felt that was really the place I belonged--I got along with the sisters great, I knew a bunch of them through marching band, stuff like that. So, I pledged. I've loved it ever since. I love all my sisters, and it's so nice to have that eternal bond and support system. Each time we pledge a new class, I get excited all over again. There's just something about going through the ceremonies and stuff again from the other side that's just exciting. There are many, many times that my sisters have come to my aid, and I to theirs. I don't know what I'd do without my Big, or my Little, or even my Twin. I just love it.

Okay, so I talk too much. But that's okay too. :)

Hazelle:

I don't mind questions being asked several times. It just means you've asked a good question since so many people have asked it before and are curious about the answer.

Why did I join? Well, quite honestly, I wasn't meaning to!

I'm a yankee who knew absolutely NOBODY in a sorority or a fraternity. It just was non-existant in my area. Sororities and fraternities were never talked about in high school... ever.

I had a rather negative opinion of the Greek system because all I knew were the stereotypes that you saw on TV and in the movies. I had no interest in joining one.

When I moved down south and starting attending an SEC school, I was amazed at how big and how popular sororities and fraternities were! But, I had a gang of friends in the dorm, and could care less about joining one.

I knew NOTHING about them. I had never heard the terms "pledge" or "rush".. and I had no idea what the Greek letters meant.

Then.. my very good friend Kelly asked me if I would go through rush with her. I remember staring at her with a blank look and saying, "What is rush?"

She explained it to me, and I wasn't at all interested. I was too busy with my sport anyway. But, she pestered me and finally convinced me to go-- just to keep her company. (Kelly ended up pledging Kappa Alpha Theta).

As I went from house to house, I was amazed at what I was learning about these groups. I had expected a bunch of plastic, snotty girls. But I learned that every preconceived notion I had about sororities was wrong!

These were genuine girls who really cared about each other.. who had a special bond. That's what attracted me the most about the sororities I visited... these girls were so "into" their groups, so "into" their philanthropies, and proud of everything about their organization. They told me of mixers, date nights, woodsers, retreats, formal dances, and just "hanging out in the house." They described their fund raising activities, and helping the community. I began to get interested!

Sometimes, you just "know" something is right. That's the feeling I had the first time I stepped through the doors of the ZTA house. I knew I had found something really special. I knew I had found my home.

I wasn't at all disappointed when I pledged. The girls were amazing.... they made my pledge period a time I will always treasure. I was able to find my way back to Zeta years later, and am so happy I have. I've met wonderful new sisters through the alumnae chapter.

I don't have a problem with repetetious threads unless they're the typical "Which chapter has the biggest front steps and the most columns in the whole world" type of thing.

I had no intention of rushing.

A couple of guys I worked with at the university radio station when I was a freshman are Delts and invited me to dinner and a "smoker." They (the chapter) invited me back, give me a bid, and I accepted because I really liked the guys in the house.

If that hadn't happened, I'd probably be posting on GDIChat.com.

I had a hard time adjusting to college the first semester. I really didn't like it much because I had been so involved in so many things in highschool (Girl Scouts, NHS, Spanish Club, candystriping, working) that when I got to college I felt lost and didn't feel like I had a niche. My boyfriend and my best friend were both pledging TKE that semester so I was exposed to a lot of Greeks. They had some good friends who were Tri-Sigmas and we all hung out alot. I was asked to join the University Ambassadors Society that first semester. It was an organization that assisted with student recruitment by making phone calls in interested students, manning information lines and giving campus tours. It was an invite only organization based on demonstrated good grades and leadership ability from high school or college. Within the Ambassador Society, I met a ton more Greeks and was really impressed by them. Back then, my campus was doing formal recruitment every semester, so the second semester, I went through formal recruitment.

I can't imagine what my life would be like without having found Alpha Gamma Delta. It is such a big part of my life, even now and though I have to juggle it now with kid activities and work, I expect it will be my primary focus after my kids are in college and into retirement. The women I have met and befriended through Alpha Gam are some of the most impressive women I've ever known. They have a dedication and spirit to the organization and to each other unlike anything I have ever experienced elsewhere. Being involved as a volunteer at this level has allowed me to meet all kinds of sisters from all over the country and Canada who I really truly can call sisters. Being in a position now where I have some input into the future of the organization is such an honor and is so humbling as well. Joining Alpha Gamma Delta is one of the best decisions I have ever made.

Honestly? Because my older sister was a Kappa and back then I had to always do what my sister did (and do it better if possible). I mean yeah, the chance to get involved on campus and have a sisterhood and meet other people was important, but if you get straight to it, the main reason I did was because my sister did. I don't know if I would have rushed had she not been in a sorority. Possibly through informal, but not formal. And I think one of the main reasons my sister went through rush was because a friend of hers from high school who was a year older was a Tri Delta.

I am definitely glad I did and love being a Kappa.

I joined because I wanted to be a part of an organization that created life long friendships. I also wanted to be a part of a sorority that has really old history, and keeps getting stronger daily.

I like the the mixers, Greek Week and the great connections it has. I like the frat boys too. Why? Because they're so cute.:)

My whole family is greek with the exception of my mom and sister, so I wanted to be greek too. I was really quiet in college, very shy, and I didn't hang out at all. I wanted to be more social, so I pledged my fraternity. When I would see these guys on campus, they dressed the best, drove the best cars, carried themselves the best, most of the sororities wanted to do things with them, they had the best overall GPA, and it's an old fraternity with a lot of history. Those were the primary reasons I joined.

I was supposed to keep the tradition going by pledging the same fraternity my dad is a member of. Well...I didn't. He was disappointed and he wouldn't pay the fees for me to join, so I had to work and save money that summer, so not only did the pledge process make me appreciate it, but the fact that I had to save money that summer to join.

As far as the partying on campus and at the fraternity house goes, I never was a party goer, so I didn't join to do that. I was more social after being a member for about 6 months, but I still didn't drink, or party. I liked the sorority girls too, I found them very attractive, but they were a little too wild for me, so I didn't join for that either.

I'm still to this day so proud to be a member of my fraternity. I still feel like it was yesterday that I made it into Kappa land. In fact I'm going out tomorrow with some of the guys I pledged with. We are still very very close. I love it til the day I die. :p :p :p

I didn't live on campus so it was kind of hard for me to meet new people outside of my classes. I also just wanted something to be a part of. They were colonizing a new sorority on campus and I went to all their events to try and become a founding member, but they didn't end up taking me. A friend in one of my classes was in another sorority and they had continous recruitment because they were really small. But by the time that I could join them, their nationals had come and taken them off campus because of something that happened with that chapter's previous officers.

Fall '05 semester started and I was sitting in one class and a girl came in with a tote bag that had Omega Phi Alpha written on it and I had never heard of that GLO before. I then went and looked it up on my school's SORC list and visited their website and just was really interested and found out that they were going to be holding rush. So I went to their events, loved their active sisters, and just fell in love with the organization so I pledged and became an active sister!

I love OPA so much! I felt we had a purpose because of all the events we did and we always loved being together! I don't think I would have found as great of sisterhood if I had joined the other sororities that I previously tried to. This was home for me! I love this organization so much that I'm trying to start a new chapter of it at the school I transfered to!

Hooray for OPA totebags! It's a surprisingly good form of publicity. I take mine everywhere. :)

I didn't go through NPC rush in the fall because I was anxious and shy, not knowing what to expect. The whole "Wear X on the 1st day, wear Y on the 2nd day, and wear Z on the 3rd day" dress code also intimidated me--I didn't want to be judged by my clothes! I'm very much a jeans, flip-flops, and t-shirt kind of girl. :cool:

It wasn't until the spring that I realized that NPC sororities on my campus don't do spring recruitment. I was considering Alpha Phi Omega because a friend of mine was going to pledge, until I heard about Omega Phi Alpha.

Because there's 3 guys to every 1 girl at Georgia Tech (hooray engineering school :p ), the only girls I knew were from classes or orientation. (All of the girls on my freshman hall were Greek, so I never got to know any aside from my ADPi roommate.) While I always tended to hang out with guys in high school, I thought it might be to my benefit to join OPA instead of APO for the sorority aspect of it (I was already sold on the service!).

I was still shy about it, but the Membership Director at the time kept in close contact with me, even though I couldn't attend the only night of rush (more like an info session). Her kindness encouraged me to pledge--even though I hadn't really met any of the sisters! I soon got to know them and find that kindness (and going with my gut) landed me right where I needed to be. I've been in love with OPA ever since! :)